I love Product Design. As consumer tech has matured, I think the most interesting challenges have largely moved from pure technology problems in to more general interface problems - helping a user get real value...

At this year's F8, Mark Zuckerberg's keynote was opened by Andy Samberg doing a 5 minute impersonation of Zuck (or, as Samberg began calling his character, "The Zuck Dawg").
Turns out there's another funny...

Acute Leukemia was the first issue we fought against at Involver. I'm telling that story today because a great person, Amit Gupta, was just diagnosed with this disease.
You can help save Amit's life. Here's...

Mourn for a day. Think Different for the rest of your life.
That's the only thing I can think of. I'm still speechless at the news that Steve Jobs has passed away, but that one idea keeps returning to me.
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Over the past few days a "scandal" has emerged from a leaked email regarding AirBnB's new round of financing.
Potential investor Chamath Palihapitiya (former head of growth at Facebook and now increasingly...

(The image to the left is from a Nancy Duarte presentation on the emotional path people travel down during great presentations)
I was having drinks last evening with a startup that had a very innovative model,...

When I first started blogging on BigThink, I compiled a list of people who I admired.
I wanted to use those folks as a north star as I was trying to figure out how I should blog to a group of people who weren't...

Understanding the effectiveness of a marketing channel fully requires understanding the revenue impact that the channel drives. Both as a source of a prospect (e.g. prospects who respond to a notification email...

We just opened up a positioning on the Involver Marketing team, I've loved developing relationships with you all as readers - and I think some of you might be a great fit for our team.So you know: I won't post...

This weekend I flew to lovely Pasco, WA to officiate a friend's wedding -- it was an amazing event and was truly enjoyable. On my way back, I had an idea for Amazon's marketing team that I wanted to share with you...

The photo to the left is founder Marco Arment's four letter tweet after seeing Apple launch a competitor to his popular startup, Instapaper.
There's been a lot of coverage as of late about platforms taking over...

In researching Groupon's IPO for the earlier post, I tried to think about which markets are being affected by Groupon. The biggest is almost certainly Yellow Pages ($26Bn worldwide) -- but there's also Online...

I have given this presentation a few times in the last several years, but I just finished refreshing some of the visuals and examples. If you're interested in how to setup a basic Facebook Page for a small...

Not a Bubble.
I've just returned from a vacation to Kaua'i and have been catching up on the news that happened while I was away... there sure was a lot of it! I hope you don't mind me sharing a quick reaction...

The startup Kiip offers a relatively simple but radical step forward in mobile advertising: why not attach brand interactions to moments of achievement/greatness where we feel elated—namely during video gameplay?

Corporate America's ability to create value the past few years has underwhelmed us. That, coupled with many other environmental effects, has led to many new players entering our consumer technology community.
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Have you heard of Rebecca Black? If not, you may be living under a rock. Her (sickly-sweet-teeny-bopper) song recently got over 62 Million views on Youtube in less than 50 days. It's also the most hated song on...

In less than two weeks, I'll be taking a short pilgrimage from San Francisco to Monterey for the e.g. -- an event that has been summarized to me by a previous attendee as "what TED used to be."
I'm going this...

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